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Chapter 68: Trapped In The Dark

작가: Juliet Blair
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“Jackson… the door.”

Savannah’s voice trembled, barely audible over the rising hum of the servers. Jackson was already there, pulling at the reinforced steel handle, muscles straining, jaw locked in fury.

It didn’t budge.

Cole checked the panel beside it, fingers flying across the keypad. “It’s no use. Harrison activated Level-4 lockdown. Nothing opens without his override.”

Savannah’s heart slammed against her ribs. “So what do we do?”

Cole swallowed. “We don’t panic. We find another access po
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  • The Ties That Binds    CHAPTER 163: THE PROMISE

    The quiet outside Sterling Tower felt unreal. For months, Savannah had lived in a world of alarms, fire, betrayal, and near-death escapes so the silence settling over the marble courtyard felt almost frightening. The sun was beginning to set, staining the sky with streaks of rose gold, and the soft wind lifted her hair as she stood beside Jackson, their fingers intertwined.She still couldn’t believe they were both standing here, whole, breathing, alive.Jackson’s thumb brushed over her knuckles. “You’re quiet,” he murmured, eyes fixed on her more than the horizon. “That usually means you’re thinking too much.”She huffed a soft laugh. “And you don’t think enough.”He raised a brow. “Savannah.”“Jackson.”Their exchanged tone made Cole standing a respectful distance away smile faintly before turning to give them privacy. Medical staff moved around checking damage, security teams cleared rubble, and various board members stood together whispering about the scandal Harrison tried and fa

  • The Ties That Binds    CHAPTER 162: THE LAST STAND OF THE STERLINGS

    The wind screamed against the shattered windows of Sterling Tower as Savannah pushed through the smoke-stained hallway, her chest heaving, her pulse hammering like war drums inside her skull. Every light flickered. Every alarm wailed. Every step drew her closer to the man whose world whose life had been nearly torn from him again.“Jackson!” she shouted, her voice echoing through the fractured corridor.Her boots crunched over broken glass, twisted steel, and fallen ceiling tiles. The entire building felt like it was holding its breath, as if waiting to see whether the empire would fall or rise depending on the two people fighting for its heart.Cole limped behind her, gripping the railing for balance. “Savannah slow down. You don’t know what’s waiting on that floor.”“I don’t care,” she said without looking back. “He’s up there. And if Harrison thinks he can take him from me now, he doesn’t understand what I’m capable of.”A burst of sparks rained from a torn electrical panel. Shadow

  • The Ties That Binds    CHAPTER 161: THE LAST DOOR BETWEEN THEM

    Savannah moved down the ruined hallway with every nerve stretched thin, her heartbeat loud enough to drown out the crackling wires above her. Smoke curled from the shattered ceiling lights, pieces of glass scattered across the floor like frozen stars. The final blast had blown out half the corridor, leaving jagged openings that dropped several floors beneath them. But she didn’t stop. She didn’t breathe. She didn’t blink.All she could see the only thing that mattered was the last steel door standing at the end of the corridor. The door that separated her from Jackson.Her steps were uneven, but her determination wasn’t. Every memory of him his voice, his steady hands, the fierce way he had always pulled her back from danger shoved her forward. She didn’t care that her legs trembled. She didn’t care that the entire tower groaned under the weight of destruction. Nothing mattered except getting that door open.“Jackson…” she whispered, barely audible over the alarm blaring above her. “P

  • The Ties That Binds    CHAPTER 160: THE FINAL MOVE

    Savannah had never known silence could feel so loud. It pressed against her ribs as though the entire world had stopped breathing with her. The hallway outside the Sterling private chamber trembled with the aftermath of the explosions, with the metallic groan of a building forced to withstand everything Harrison had thrown at it. Smoke clung to the air like a shadow refusing to leave, but Savannah walked through it with her chin lifted, her heart beating in slow, heavy strikes that tasted like destiny.Jackson walked beside her.Alive. Standing. Breathing.His injuries had not fully healed she could see the tightness in his jaw whenever a sharp movement sent pain through his ribs but he refused help, refused rest, refused anything that suggested he would step back while this final piece of the war was put into place. He walked as a man who had already died once tonight and clawed his way back because he refused to leave her alone in the fire."Security sweep confirms the west wing is

  • The Ties That Binds    CHAPTER 159: THE FINAL BREATH BEFORE THE FALL

    Savannah didn’t wait for permission she pushed through the ruined doorway as if the collapsing hallway itself couldn’t stop her. Smoke curled through the scorched corridor, the remnants of Harrison’s last trap still simmering in the air. Sirens wailed in the distance, a haunting reminder that the tower wasn’t stable, that time was bleeding away far faster than any of them could afford. But she didn’t slow down. Not when Jackson was somewhere ahead of her. Not when everything they had clawed through every fire, every betrayal, every breath of hope led them to this final stretch.Her shoes scraped asphalt as she stepped into the open emergency deck, the night wind slicing across her face. The city lights sprawled below like stars fallen to earth, a glittering horizon that mocked how close everything had come to being destroyed. She saw him then standing at the edge of the platform, shoulders tight, chest rising and falling like he was holding up the entire world alone.“Jackson,” she ca

  • The Ties That Binds    CHAPTER 158: THE WEIGHT OF WHAT COMES NEXT

    Savannah didn’t realize she was holding her breath until Jackson’s fingers slid between hers, grounding her back into the moment with a quiet urgency she felt all the way through her bones. The war around them every fire, every betrayal, every scheme Harrison had unleashed felt as though it had finally begun to fade into silence, but the aftermath still hovered sharp and heavy in the air. They stood at the top floor of Sterling Tower, alarms finally quieted, smoke settling, the chaos below slowly shrinking into nothing more than distant memory. Yet the tension between them pulsed like a living thing.Jackson turned toward her fully, jaw tight, eyes darker than she’d ever seen. “Savannah… everything is going to change after tonight.” His voice was steady, but beneath it she heard something else fear, not of danger, but of the truth he hadn’t spoken yet.Savannah stepped closer, refusing to let the uncertainty root itself between them. "Everything has already changed," she murmured. "We

  • The Ties That Binds    CHAPTER 86: THE SPLIT

    Savannah jerked awake before her eyes even opened, her heart slamming against her ribs as if trying to claw its way out. The air around her was cold, unnaturally still, and for a moment she didn’t know where she was. The soft hum of Sterling Tower’s emergency generators vibrated through the floor,

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  • The Ties That Binds    Chapter 80: Into The Fire

    Savannah didn’t breathe until the elevator doors sealed shut behind them. The metallic thud echoed through the dim emergency shaft, vibrating through the cold steel walls. The tower around them hummed with warning sirens deep below, a sound that pulsed like a heartbeat a countdown they couldn’t out

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  • The Ties That Binds    Chapter 79: The Wringer

    Savannah inhaled, tasting smoke and fear and adrenaline.“Then tell me what to do,” she whispered.Jackson gripped her hand tighter.“Follow me,” he said. “And don’t look back.”The hallway ahead of them was barely visible through the haze rising from the electrical fire. Sparks popped from the cei

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  • The Ties That Binds    CHAPTER 85: UNDER GLASS AND FIRE

    The elevator doors slid open with a cold metallic hiss, revealing the top-floor observatory a circular room made entirely of reinforced glass. The night sky stretched endlessly beyond it, St. Louis glittering beneath like a field of burning stars. Savannah stepped out first, her breathing shallow,

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